Reply to SMS from your desktop with Pushbullet and EvolveSMS

The folks at Pushbullet are doing some of the coolest things on Android right now. If you’re unfamiliar with the app check out “5 cool things you should be doing with Pushbullet.” The basic function of Pushbullet is allow you to “push” things to any connected device, but it can also do something called “Notification Mirroring.” This allows you to see Android notifications across devices, including your desktop computer. Today they are making that feature even more handy.

The developer behind EvolveSMS, a popular SMS replacement, has announced a partnership with Pushbullet. This partnership will allow EvolveSMS users to receive, view, and now reply to SMS messages from their desktop PC. Before it was only possible to see that you received a SMS, but you had to grab your phone to take action on it. Check out the video below to see it in action.

In order to use this feature you need to be a member of the EvolveSMS and Pushbullet beta communities, and have the Pushbullet Chrome extension. You can find links to all of those below. Hopefully we see more partnerships with Pushbullet like this. Imagine being able to take action on more notifications right from your desktop. Are you using Pushbullet or EvolveSMS?

I’ve got both, but the one that can solidly offer the better service in both of those areas will be the winner in my book (or should I say, on my phone)

a) youth.in.asia

Only reason I went back to hangouts is that EvolveSMS wouldn’t sent MMS messages. I finally got it configured and any time that I would send an MMS message, I would have to go back in and manually resend it

New_Guy777

MightyText can do MMS.

Droid6

I’m loving it so far , I ditch Hangout sadly but might pick it up if this don’t work out

New_Guy777

MightyText doesn’t do as large of file transfers, but they do pretty much all of the major things PushBullet does (with the exception of ITTT). Nice thing is that you don’t have to abandon Hangouts.

I’m a paid owner of Desksms, but it’s integration is lacking. Contact names weren’t shown, just the (phone #’s)@….which was less than useful. Also, these apps do a lot more than just SMS…file sharing between devices, sharing of web pages, lists, etc.

MrDivaNYC

Google Desktop AND PDANet already had this feature…wayyyyyyyyyyy before anyone else. DUH!